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US
/ˈɡɫum/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈuːm/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈuːm/ ]
NOUN
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an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
gloom pervaded the office -
a state of partial or total darkness
he struck a match to dispel the gloom - a feeling of melancholy apprehension
How To Use gloom In A Sentence
- It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
- Who dareth name the fiend?" croaked an awful voice, whereat Black Lewin halted, gaped and stood a-tremble, while beneath steel cap and bascinet all men's hair stirred and rose with horror; for before them was a ghastly shape, a shape that crouched in the gloom with dreadful face aflame with smouldering green fire. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
- Still, we mellow out round the fire, toasting marshmallows and muttering into the gloom.
- We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
- After years of fiscal gloom, they hope Brown will bring his political clout to the corporate realm.
- His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
- Something about the gloom and the darkness appealed to me, probably the same reason I loved horror movies.
- Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
- So why all the doom and gloom? The Sun
- Given how gloomy people are about the eurozone, it might not take much. Times, Sunday Times